Spring 2006
Volume 3 Issue 2


POETRY

 

A. Jay Adler

 

Things in Themselves

Arlene Ang

bloom

Aaron Anstett

Naked

Geoffrey Babbitt

Some Nettle
Man Whose Body is Not Exclusively His III

Barry Ballard

A Burial At Sea

Jackie Bartley

Letter from Florida in Winter
Song in the Heat of Summer

Priscilla Barton

The Dead

Jeffrey Bean

Elegy for a Honda

Jill Beauchesne

Cold Frame

Lillian Bertram

Wedding Face

Ronda Broatch

I dream a house with many floors,

Marcel Brouwers

Suckface

Gladys Justin Carr

Ships

Meagan Cass

Without Provocation

George L. Chieffet

Who You Pretend To Be

Heather Christle

A Biography of Someone We Know

Rob Cook

Family Winter

Nicole Cooley

Jargon
Generation of Vipers

Carol V. Davis

The Anatomy of a Palm and the Confluence of Lines

Paul Dickey

Epistemology While Getting Lost in Minneapolis

DJ Dolack

Thought The Driver
Still-Birth in Winter

Joe Fletcher

Bristle

Sheldon Flory

Maine, 1963: Total Eclipse

Jason Fraley

Missed Signals
Retirement

Carol Frith

Polilla Blanca (White Moth)

Laverne Frith

In The Front Lawn

Alice George

Halfway to the ATM the atheist understands

Jonathan Harrington

The Underwear of the Dead

Mary Crockett Hill

Poem for What Has Come

Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Tomb

Steffen Horstmann

Ghazal of Diminishment

Samantha Isasi

Scar

Rhett Iseman

Letter From the Bottom of a Well

M.J. Iuppa

Translation

Ilya Kaminsky

Author's Prayer
Aunt Rose

Daniel Khalastchi

That we won’t listen to the boats still in the harbor

Lorene Lamothe

Absence of Red

David Lawrence

Carrot

Diane Lechleitner

Drought

Patrick Leonard

To Swim

Lyn Lifshin

Palimpsest
After the House of Ghosts Dream

Ann Linde

Conversion

Gayle Lynch

Ideas at Rest Do Not Remain at Rest

Rachel A. Mallino

The Missing Season

Laura Bernstein-Machlay

Sticks and Stones

Shad Marsh

[At 4 a.m. you awake]

Clay Matthews

If Only I’d Been Better at Chemistry

Andrew McCarron

An Ongoing List of Times

Marilyn McConnell

When People Pass On

Elizabeth McDonnell

Lemons

Gary L. McDowell

At the Botanical Garden in Toledo, Ohio, I See a Snake That Is Not a Cobra

Michael Meyerhofer

A Strong Handshake

Sally Molini

After the Star Party

Stephen Newton

Ice In The Dark And The Sounds Of Skates

Maurice Oliver

“O Drama Be Mine” Sonnet
Between One-Sidedness & Universality

Jason Ott

Metal Scrap Canyon

Adam Parez

President’s Day 2005
Phone Calls from Ahead

Stephen Powers

This Dolly Shirt

Rhonda C. Poynter

The Haunting

Michael Quattrone

Birds I View
Couplets

Doug Ramspeck

Distant Trees

Jack Ridl

Waiting in the Language of Light
The Mail Carrier

Nanette Rayman Rivera

Asherah

Michael Robins

Predilection
The Cows Go Mulling Home

Cheryl Wood Ruggiero

Eve Answers a Child’s Question about Death

Dennis Saleh

Decrescendo

Lacy Schutz

All Is Not Well
She Flew From Him

Ed Shannon

After Babel

Glenn Sheldon

Song of the Magnet
A Standing Invitation

Jeff D. Simpson

Upon Reading Elvin Jones has Died of Heart Failure in Englewood, New Jersey
Morning Prayer

Elizabeth Simson

The Holy Room

Askold Skalsky

Internal Émigré at Journey’s End

Judith Skillman

Salt

Sarah E. Smith

Discourse in Favor of Mini Wine Bottles

Joris Soeding

The Pope and Rendition Without a Count
Proposing to Miss Make-Believe

Cassie Sparkman

Lapse

Joannie Kervran Stangeland

After Winter

D. Antwan Stewart

Myopia

Rebecca Wadlinger

Later, People Took On Qualities That Planets Usually Have

Jacqueline West

The Putting Away
March Thaw

James R. Whitley

Aubade, with Recurring Jay

Rynn Williams

Emma, Again

Matt Zambito

To Today's Good News
Picking Strawberries

Fredrick Zydek

Rolling Back the Stone

 

FICTION

 

Deborah Atherton

 

The Geography of Love

Richard Cahill

Here in the Boxes

Joshua Daniel

Can’t You Draw Me a Little House?

Stefanie Freele

The Space Between Two Sentences

Thor Jourgensen

He's Got It
Tynne's Funeral

Scott Miles

One More Try

Michelle Ross

Ventriloquy

John Woods

A Pair of Zips
Gargamel
Rainbow Brite

 

REVIEWS

 

Todd Dillard

 

on Circle by Victoria Chang

Andrew Kozma

on A Home for Wayward Girls by Kevin Boyle

Elizabeth McDonnell

on Settling for Beauty by J.D. Smith

Addie Tsai

on Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes